Sponsor will be given 3min to talk about their company before the event and logo in the event page. We promote our events via multiple avenues to +9000 people. Food or drinks sponsors are in-kind but must bring enough supplies for all guests.

Event Details

Our events have been called a small version of TEDx. Come join our fun and useful discussions on key trends, innovations, problems, sustainability, and social responsibility. Work with and on new tools, practices, ideas and projects. See the future and seize the present. Grow your network of supportive, future-oriented friends.

The presentation will start PROMPTLY at 7:30 PM. The presentation will last about an hour and then more networking.

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Presentation: Home Motion Capture. Some of the most exciting technology development is being created with a consumer device for the Xbox that has captured the imagination of programmers and artists worldwide. Motion capture without makers or motion capture suits, scanning object and entire rooms in real time, and many other capabilities will be shown, including live demonstrations of the motion capture and facial capture possibilities, and the 3d point cloud and capture capabilities.

An amazing and inexpensive piece of hardware that programmers have been developing with open-source code. The results are truly astonishing: markerless motion capture, real-time scanning, facial recognition, and more...

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Speaker: Mike Amron. Mike's goal is to bring excitement and renewed interest of computer graphics to the creative community in L.A. Mike Amron has worked as a technical director for ILM, DD, VIFX and Metrolight. He has worked on features (Jingle All the Way, Casper, Looney Tunes), commercials and music videos. More recently, he has consulted on Marvel's Avengers, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Mike also organizes the L.A. Kinect Meetup Group.

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Future Salons are monthly educational, activist, and social events, focused on existing or emerging scientific, technological, entrepreneurial, or social change topics and projects worthy of your help and attention. We also cover critical-thinking, management, and personal change topics, and occasionally longer-term scientific and philosophical topics. Our goal is to make our rapidly changing world more fascinating, manageable, profitable, and positive-sum for all of us. We strive to be both doing-action-project oriented, and thinking-idea-prioritizing oriented. About the Future Salon Network initiated by John Smart: http://www.accelerating.org/futuresalon.html

Special thanks to our presenter and our venue sponsor:

Based in Los Angeles, California’s historic Venice Beach, Amplify.LA is a hands-on startup accelerator designed to help members amplify their companies for success. The program operates from a 10,000 square foot entrepreneurial campus. For more information: http://www.amplify.la/

We organize many events, including the Future Salons, which are monthly educational and networking events, focused on existing, emerging and futuristic scientific, technological, entrepreneurial, or social topics and projects worthy of your attention and support. We also cover critical-thinking, management, and personal change topics, and occasionally longer-term scientific and philosophical topics.

We bring expert speakers from around the world and open discussion around their topic. Our goal is to make our rapidly changing world more fascinating, manageable, profitable, understandalbe, and positive-sum for all of us. We strive to be both doing-action-project oriented, and thinking-idea-prioritizing oriented. About the Future Salon Network initiated by John Smart: http://www.accelerating.org/futuresalon.html

Come join our fun and useful discussions on key trends, innovations, problems, sustainability, and social responsibility. Work with and on new tools, practices, ideas and projects. See the future and seize the present. Grow your network of supportive, future-oriented friends.